Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn
Rahnella aquatilis is an infrequently isolated Gram-negative rod within the Enterobacteriaceae family. The organism’s natural habitat is water. The organism is rarely isolated from clinical specimens and it seldom causes infection in immunocompetent individuals. Here we present a one-month-old boy w...
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| author | Canan Kuzdan Ahmet Soysal Hülya Özdemir Şenay Coşkun İpek Akman Hülya Bilgen Eren Özek Mustafa Bakır |
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| description | Rahnella aquatilis is an infrequently isolated Gram-negative rod within the Enterobacteriaceae family. The organism’s natural habitat is water. The organism is rarely isolated from clinical specimens and it seldom causes infection in immunocompetent individuals. Here we present a one-month-old boy who was born prematurely at 27th week of gestation by cesarean section with a birth weight of 730 g. He developed sepsis caused by Rahnella aquatilis during the treatment for ventilator associated pneumonia due to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia with ciprofloxacin. He was successfully treated with a combination of amikacin plus meropenem. Although R. aquatilis is one of the saprophyticus organisms, it may cause life-threatening infection in newborn. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-66a701bad9f24802889db9699d76a5c92025-02-03T01:27:40ZengWileyCase Reports in Pediatrics2090-68032090-68112015-01-01201510.1155/2015/860671860671Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature NewbornCanan Kuzdan0Ahmet Soysal1Hülya Özdemir2Şenay Coşkun3İpek Akman4Hülya Bilgen5Eren Özek6Mustafa Bakır7Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, İstanbul, TurkeyMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, İstanbul, TurkeyRahnella aquatilis is an infrequently isolated Gram-negative rod within the Enterobacteriaceae family. The organism’s natural habitat is water. The organism is rarely isolated from clinical specimens and it seldom causes infection in immunocompetent individuals. Here we present a one-month-old boy who was born prematurely at 27th week of gestation by cesarean section with a birth weight of 730 g. He developed sepsis caused by Rahnella aquatilis during the treatment for ventilator associated pneumonia due to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia with ciprofloxacin. He was successfully treated with a combination of amikacin plus meropenem. Although R. aquatilis is one of the saprophyticus organisms, it may cause life-threatening infection in newborn.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/860671 |
| spellingShingle | Canan Kuzdan Ahmet Soysal Hülya Özdemir Şenay Coşkun İpek Akman Hülya Bilgen Eren Özek Mustafa Bakır Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn Case Reports in Pediatrics |
| title | Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn |
| title_full | Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn |
| title_fullStr | Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn |
| title_short | Rahnella aquatilis Sepsis in a Premature Newborn |
| title_sort | rahnella aquatilis sepsis in a premature newborn |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/860671 |
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